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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Options in both eeschema and pcbnew and related bits (libedit and modedit) are
in flux - I'll work on getting them documented when they're done, and I'll let
you know as well in case I miss anything :)

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:28:48PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> As usual, sorry for my bad English.
> 
> A few days ago I added a few missing lines (according to a suggestion
> from a KiCad forum user) to the Getting Started Manual to describe che
> color change procedure of a component in the Part Library Editor.
> 
> In the old behaviour the color change could be made directly from inside
> the Editor. Now it seems that the color change can only be made from the
> Eeschema session from wich the Editor was started.
> 
> BTW, if the part editor is started from the kicad project manager, there
> is no way to change the component color if not starting an eeschema
> session. I think this is sub-optimal and IMHO I prefer the old behaviour.
> 
> My question is: is this new menu configuration stable enough or it will
> be re-added a colour option sub-menu in the Part Editor?
> 
> If this configuration is stable, I can try to describe it in the manual
> and so I can start modify the manual accordingly.
> 
> If the new menu configuration is unstable, I will wait until who is
> working on it will be so kind to warn me when he will have finished.
> 
> If the author of the new menu configuration want to update the manual
> by himself I won't go against it... ;-)
> 
> TIA
> Regards,
> 
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> 
> 
> Marco Ciampa
> 
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